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The Departed - Movie Review
Oct. 28th, 2006 11:27 pm[Tonight's background noise is Saturday Night Live, which I haven't watched since...well I think Sarah Michelle Gellar hosted it during her Buffy days, only watching it tonight to see Hugh Laurie. Yet, instead I get guy doing the Borat film - which Wales cackled at the previews of today at the movie theater while I sat somewhat bored, I think I've seen the Borat trailer one too many times now, the jokes are getting old. Although he did have a couple funny lines tonight and I liked the monkey. Ah Laurie. Cool to hear Laurie in original accident.]
We saw The Departed today which all the critics seem to be swooning over. But then all you need to say is Martin Scorsese and Jack Nicholoson in a sentence and a movie critic will swoon. I don't know, found it to be sort of long and boring in places. I looked at my watch twice. Afterwards asked Wales, if it was just me or if Scorcese's films had gotten longer in the last few years. She asked what time is it? I said 3:15. Oh my god. It was a long movie. The film started at 12:30. Don't get me wrong, don't mind long movies - if they need to be long. Adore David Lean's films: Passage to India and Lawrence of Arabia, which were so long, we got an intermission. Reds. And Fellowship of the Ring. But this film was unnecessarily long and far longer than it needed to be. They could have trimmed at least twenty minutes off of it - but whoops that would have given Jack Nicholson less time to chew scenery.
I think I may have enjoyed the film more if they'd flipped Alec Baldwin and Jack Nicholoson. ie. Had Nicholoson play the FBI agent and Baldwin the Mob guy. Or if they'd flipped Di-Caprio and Damon. Wales enjoyed it - but then Wales was running her own version of the movie over the one that actually aired and was somewhat taken aback with the ending, while I saw the ending coming a mile away. Methinks I've seen one too many noir films in my lifetime.
( spoilers for The Departed and very vague spoilers for The Prestige )
The Departed: C+
We saw The Departed today which all the critics seem to be swooning over. But then all you need to say is Martin Scorsese and Jack Nicholoson in a sentence and a movie critic will swoon. I don't know, found it to be sort of long and boring in places. I looked at my watch twice. Afterwards asked Wales, if it was just me or if Scorcese's films had gotten longer in the last few years. She asked what time is it? I said 3:15. Oh my god. It was a long movie. The film started at 12:30. Don't get me wrong, don't mind long movies - if they need to be long. Adore David Lean's films: Passage to India and Lawrence of Arabia, which were so long, we got an intermission. Reds. And Fellowship of the Ring. But this film was unnecessarily long and far longer than it needed to be. They could have trimmed at least twenty minutes off of it - but whoops that would have given Jack Nicholson less time to chew scenery.
I think I may have enjoyed the film more if they'd flipped Alec Baldwin and Jack Nicholoson. ie. Had Nicholoson play the FBI agent and Baldwin the Mob guy. Or if they'd flipped Di-Caprio and Damon. Wales enjoyed it - but then Wales was running her own version of the movie over the one that actually aired and was somewhat taken aback with the ending, while I saw the ending coming a mile away. Methinks I've seen one too many noir films in my lifetime.
( spoilers for The Departed and very vague spoilers for The Prestige )
The Departed: C+
